Hot on the heels of yesterdays interview of Sun’s Florian Reuter (part one in a series of three), comes a two-page interview with OpenOffice.org’s Gary Edwards. In this installment, Gary discusses the importance of open document formats and hints to the release date of OpenOffice.org 2.0: “No one knows for certain when OOo 2.0 stable will be released, but Mad Penguin’s bet is that the stable 2.0 release will come before any recently purchased cartons of milk expire in your refrigerator.”
My carton of milk expires on Oct. 31st oddly enough, and I’ll hold him to this.
How does this fit with XHTML 2.O?
From there, there is no doubt in my mind that OpenDocument is heading to the W3C for ratification as the successor to HTML and XHTML.
“How does this fit with XHTML 2.O?”
I don’t think it does. From the interview, it seem like OASIS is pushing for ODF to be the be-all-end-all for document formats both on the desktop and on the browser. I didn’t think about this before, but it makes a lot of sense. On the one hand, it brings powerful document layout to the web. On the other hand, are today’s browsers able to render ODF pages? Will this be a Mozilla/Gecko-specific feature? I can’t see W3C ratifying this if it won’t work with… IE for example.
This also calls into question why Mass. is supporting PDF. It seems as if ODF is meant to replace PDF.
This guy is talking revolution, no question. He’s talking about everyone other than Microsoft getting together and uniting on a single format for everything. He’s talking about Microsoft vs. The World, and declaring that MS will go down. It’s exciting words, but I wonder how true this can possible turn out to be.
So what doesn’t ODF do? Images? Audio? Video? Will we soon have one file format for code (and other plaintext) and another for data?
Looks like MS has no options other than adhere to the standard. And this time the E3 (embrace, extend and extinguish) is not going to work!
Not that they will not fight, but they are smart enough to not burn money (lose customers).
Yes, their strong hug on the market is loosing. Bad for them, great for anybody else.
The milk in my fridge expired 2 weeks ago.
He said: “…any recently purchased cartons…”
Myself, like so many others are excited and glad to see this happening for technology.
Great news for all!
Hate to be a pessimist but 1.9.130 can’t even open HTML files without locking and crashing at the moment and Base is full of bugs… How can they debug it in only a few weeks?
On the other hand, I want to see them move on so that the next release can have a new GUI, like MS Office finally has.
Did you try the RC2 version?
1.9.130 is newer, I believe. I had a little play with RC2. Base still had problems but I did not try the HTML import at that time.
1.9.130 is newer, I believe.
I thought you were wrong, but you’re not. Damn. :}
I had a little play with RC2. Base still had problems but I did not try the HTML import at that time.
Editing HTML is an ugly process (RC2). Hadn’t tried it till now.
Microsoft’s new strategy in this second war is patents. They’re filing patents on how you use XML. They can’t own XML, so they are filing patents on ideas of how you implement XML. They’re current goal is to file at least 300 patents per day, and they claim that they want to double and triple that amount yearly.
If that is true it is really obscene. This type of a corporation is obviously a menace to society and liberty.